A Beetle Pet Store and Insect Museum
Part insect pet store and part museum, this place makes for an interesting place to visit, and if you're not careful you'll come home owning a beetle or two. When you enter, there are educational exhibits showing what baby beetles look like, as well as live adult beetles, and there's cases of dead pinned beetles and butterflies, which kids might find interesting to examine. In an additional area there's more exhibits ... as well as animals including a bird, rooster, cat, bunny, and various reptiles. The back of the museum is the pet shop and has beetles and some other creatures like hedgehogs for sale, along with all the supplies needed to keep them alive. For Chinese speakers, regular educational classes on insects are held for kids, including how to take care of a pet beetle.
Address: No. 8, Lane 406, Section 3, Heping E Rd, Da’an District, Taipei City
Hours: 6PM - 9PM Mon-Tues, 12PM - 9PM Wed, 4PM - 9PM Thu-Fri, 10AM-9PM Sat-Sun
Phone: 02 7729 3709
Find out more:
Name and Address in Chinese:
名稱: 台灣資源昆蟲協會 台灣昆蟲館
地址: 106台北市大安區和平東路三段406巷8號
Things to do with kids:
Check out the various insect educational exhibits.
View the pinned beetles and butterflies on display.
Look at lizard and ostrich skeletons.
See the various mammals and reptiles on display.
Buy a pet beetle? (There's also plastic ones available)
